Image: Painting by Matt Casanovas

GARNER Arts Festival '22

SCHEDULE: Saturday, May 21st & Lord's day, May 22nd, 12PM to 6PM (both days) RAIN OR Polish

LOCATION: GARNER Arts Center | 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923

ADMISSION: Adults $viii; Seniors $six; Kids 12 & under Free. (Walk-up Only. Cash preferred); Family Day-Pass $18/Weekend Pass (Single) $14 (Available for Presale)

Image: You Are Here! (aka The Maze) by Trouble

Virtually GARNER Arts Festval
 For the first fourth dimension since 2018, GARNER Arts Festival, the Mid-Hudson region's premier immersive fine art festival with an almanac draw of over 3,000 visitors returns to the historic hamlet of Garnerville, NY – just 35 miles northwest of New York City. Now in its 16th year, with support from ReStart the Arts, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislature and the New York Land Council on the Arts and local support from Rockland County, the Village of Due west Haverstraw and the Town of Haverstraw, this weekend-long event offers world-class fine art exhibitions, large-calibration installations, open studios, artisan demonstrations, live music, crafts, performances, craft beverages, nutrient and more! GARNER Arts Festival will take place on Saturday, May 21st and Sunday, May 22nd from 12pm to 6pm, rain or shine.

Image: Vessel Series: Wood, Steel & Metal and artifact vessel sculpture by Peter Strasser

Visitors of all ages are invited to explore the GARNER Historic District, a reclaimed 14 acre, 19th century material mill complex that has been transformed into one of the nearly compelling contemporary art venues and small business incubators exterior of New York Urban center. Visit xl open creative person studios. Meet painters, sculptors, illustrators, woodworkers, photographers, graphic designers, textile artists and more. Make fine art in a multifariousness of creative workshops for kids and adults. Browse an eclectic craft show. Engage with art installations and interactive performances gear up in celebrated brick alleys, clangorous old factory spaces, and along the meandering Minisceongo creek. Alive music, local nutrient vendors, arts and crafts beverages and an artisanal java bar provide fuel for the experience.

Featured Art and Performances: Big Risks: Creative Discoveries large-calibration "tree sculpture" exhibition by Peter Strasser; You Are Here (aka The Maze!) interactive installation past Brooklyn-based and internationally recognized duo Problem; How'southward That Going to Work?, a groundbreaking electro-acoustic composition by experimental composer John Morton with performances past Klang Quartet; Comprehend Lover Remix, an exhibition of reimagined album art and vinyl-centric activations curated by Brooklyn-based Dick Burroughs; a choice of decorated mannequins from the Art Reborn: 100 Mannequins Exhibition ; #iamCOLOR large-scale tapestry installation by honour-winning Rockland-based creative person Kris Campbell; Queen Mother of Progress photography exhibition by globe-travelling photographer and photo-journalist Collette Fournier; interactive performances past Rockland-based gimmicky drum and trip the light fantastic ensemble Chiku Awali; The Wishing Booth, a surreal creative visualization by filmmakers Samtubia + Samgoma; solo exhibition by painter and GARNER artist Tiffany Freeman in the Industrial Arts Brewing Co. taproom; music & interactive alive art curated by performer & director Kate Valentine and more!

Family Activities: Kids' Creative Corner and youth art activity station. Regional Educatee Fine art Show featuring Rockland & Westchester County schoolhouse art exhibitions.

Prototype: Boo and Alasia Photo by Collette Fournier

Arts and crafts Artisans: Arts and crafts vendors brandish and sell their handcrafted wares.

Image: Garner Celebrated District

GARNER Arts Eye's Historic Circuitous:
GARNER Arts Heart's home, the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center, is a circuitous of quondam textile mill buildings, and is the living, animate, working abode where artists create their fine art for a living. The public gets a chance to meet the open studios and live demonstrations of a diversity of artisans, while wandering the back alleys, alcoves and creekside sculpture trail of this historic, Civil War-era textile manufactory.  In 2014, the circuitous was awarded a list on the National Register of Historic Places equally the Rockland Print Works Historic Commune, aka GARNER Historic Commune of New York. The New York State Deputy Commissioner for Historic Preservation, Ruth L. Pierpont, said: "Listing on the National Register recognizes the importance of [Rockland Impress Works] to the history of our land."  Established by Garner & Co., which between 1837 and 1909 dominated the material industry in the The states, the Rockland Print Works was associated with the hamlet of Garnerville'southward evolution as a thriving factory town, and was reorganized in 1934 as one of the Nation'south first industrial cooperatives.

HOW: Onsite parking is available in the GARNER Celebrated District. Off-site parking is available on Railroad Artery and nearby Chapel Street. Nearby offsite parking locations: SW Johnson Firehouse at 37 Bridge Street & the N Rockland Central Schoolhouse District lot at 65 Chapel Street.

HEALTH & SAFETY: It is recommended that visitors stay dwelling if not feeling well. GARNER Arts Centre and the Garner Celebrated District recommends mask wearing indoors and for guests to practice distancing, specially among large groups where possible. Paw sanitizing stations will be bachelor in indoor spaces and outdoors throughout the festival grounds.

Image: Rainbow Performers by Kate Valentine (L.A.B. Fest 2019)

Dining & Drinks: The GARNER Creekside nutrient court volition offering tastes of the best local food and craft drink providers in the region, including: delicious fabricated-to-guild pies by Pizza Vitale, the eclectic flavorful offerings of Haverstraw's 5 Senses food truck, the down-habitation smoky goodness of Big Daddy's Homeplate BBQ of Haverstraw, refreshing treats from Haverstraw'due south iconic summertime water ice cart, Ice Is Nice – Oh Yes It Is! The GARNER bar volition proudly serve arts and crafts beer from Industrial Arts Brewing Company alongside pop-ups from Rockland Cider Works and Wölffer Estate wine. Visitors can also stop past the GARNER Historic District's own award-winning food and beverage establishments. Regional favorite, Hudson's Manufactory Tavern will exist open for a gourmet sit-downwards lunch. Arts and crafts-beer lovers tin visit Industrial Arts Brewing Company'southward newly renovated taproom. A pop-up java bar stocked with the complex's own artisanal roaster, Stack Street Coffee, will besides be open.

Sponsors: GARNER Arts Festival is fabricated possible with funds from ReStart the Arts, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislature and the New York Country Council on the Arts. GARNER Arts Center is supported past the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York Land Legislature, Rockland County Tourism, The Village of Due west Haverstraw and the Boondocks of Haverstraw. Special thank you to the Garner Historic District.

Paradigm: #iamRED by Kris Campbell

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Give thanks You, Sponsors!

This projection is made possible with funds from the ReStart the Arts, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature and administered by ArtsWestchester.

Special Thanks:
GARNER Historic District
The Village of West Haverstraw